Developer

Creating Custom Metadata Fields

How to create and edit custom metadata fields using the Account Settings > Video Fields page in the Brightcove Studio.

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Ad Formats Used by Brightcove

This topic describes the ad formats that can be used with Brightcove.

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Brightcove SDKs

Brightcove and its developer community have created a number of handy software development kits to enhance your ability to use Brightcove’s publishing, player and advertising capabilities.

Media API SDKs

Brightcove-savvy developers have created Media API SDKs wrap Media API methods in HTTP calls for a number of popular languages. You can include them in your applications as native classes for easy API access. Here are the currently available Media API SDKs:

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Custom Skins for Player Components

Setting custom skins for individual elements of player components.

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Debugging Brightcove Players

Brightcove offers a player logging utility that can be very helpful for figuring out why something isn't working the way you expect in your Brightcove player.

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Media Sharing

Media sharing is a feature of Brightcove that lets publishers share videos with other publishers, enabling you to more easily manage videos across multiple accounts. Media sharing puts you in control of sharing relationships with other accounts in your organization, and helps you provision copies of your videos to these accounts.

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Developing Ad Translators

This document describes how to create an Ad Translator. The Ad Translator enables easy integration between Brightcove players and ad servers. By default, Brightcove players are set up to integrate with DoubleClick DART for Publishers.

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Localizing Player Error Messages

When Brightcove players are unable to load, whether because of geographic or domain restrictions, content unavailability, or otherwise, the page displays an appropriate error message. By default, these error messages are in English. This topic describes how to localize your player error messages.

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Using Multi-Bitrate Streaming with Batch Provisioning

This document describes how to use multi-bitrate streaming if you want to upload your videos using FTP batch provisioning, rather than using the Media module. When you use FTP batch provisioning to upload your videos, you have the same options that you do when you upload videos with the Media module, except that the encoding of your video files must be either VP6 (FLV) or H.264 (MP4).

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VAST Ad Formats and Format Codes

This topic describes the VAST ad formats supported by Brightcove.

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